So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm belongs to the united cry of God's people when the kingdom is in peril, prayed in the setting of Jehoshaphat as an appeal for God to judge the hostile coalition threatening the land entrusted to Israel. It was offered by Jehoshaphat and all Judah standing before the Lord with their little ones, wives, and children, fasting and praying together with eyes upon God who in past ages had often interposed to save His chosen ones from utter destruction. The prayer asks God not to keep silence or be still while confederate enemies make tumult, take crafty counsel together, and seek to cut Israel off from being a nation so that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. The confederate enemies to be put to confusion are Ammon, Moab, Mount Seir, Edom, the Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Gebal, and Amalek.
Tempest and storm are images of overwhelming divine judgment, asking God to pursue and drive back the united nations and to trouble, confuse, and terrify them. The appeal looks to how God dealt with the Midianites and with Sisera and Jabin at the brook Kishon as the pattern for confusing, troubling, and frightening the present enemies. It seeks that the enemies be confounded, put to shame, and perish, so that the name of Jehovah is glorified and people may know that He whose name alone is Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm belongs to the united cry of God's people when the kingdom is in peril, prayed in the setting of Jehoshaphat as an appeal for God to judge the hostile coalition threatening the land entrusted to Israel. It was offered by Jehoshaphat and all Judah standing before the Lord with their little ones, wives, and children, fasting and praying together with eyes upon God who in past ages had often interposed to save His chosen ones from utter destruction. The prayer asks God not to keep silence or be still while confederate enemies make tumult, take crafty counsel together, and seek to cut Israel off from being a nation so that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. The confederate enemies to be put to confusion are Ammon, Moab, Mount Seir, Edom, the Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Gebal, and Amalek.
Tempest and storm are images of overwhelming divine judgment, asking God to pursue and drive back the united nations and to trouble, confuse, and terrify them. The appeal looks to how God dealt with the Midianites and with Sisera and Jabin at the brook Kishon as the pattern for confusing, troubling, and frightening the present enemies. It seeks that the enemies be confounded, put to shame, and perish, so that the name of Jehovah is glorified and people may know that He whose name alone is Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.